A day off for a holiday is like a gift of extra time. You now have 8 hours (plus whatever your commute is) that you wouldn't have otherwise had. So how do you spend it? We love breaking into the old Cooking Light magazine recipe archives and finding the pages we marked to make on a day we had a little extra time. Here are the recipes we can't wait to try on our day off, and we hope you'll join us as we experiment.

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Alternative meats go way beyond sad grilled tofu. This dish has real flavor that hits you hard, with a fresh vegan tzatziki sauce and a unreal cooking liquid to take take tempeh places you didn't think it could go.